[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia legal threat (forwarded email now sent)

Thu Sep 29 05:48:43 UTC 2005

On 9/29/05, Guettarda <guettarda at gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually, have a look at AN/I - Chris Hillman said he gave up and asked that
> the article be reverted to Sarfatti's favoured version and left so - which,
> of course, the community would not do. More to the point, while Hillman
> wrote the version that offended Sarfatti, many other editors were reverting
> to Hillman's version.
>
> More to the point, if editors are threatened with lawsuits for making good
> faith attempts to write NPOV articles (which, given community support, it
> would appear that Hillman did) we can't just leave them out on their own.
> That would be great for community spirit - when someone threatens you were
> abandon you? Not a good precident.
I missed most of the previous stuff, but this sounds insane. I agree
with you. But is he suing in a COURT OF LAW in Trenton, New Jersey?
Anyway, I suppose this is just another issue of the wiki idea having
scaling problems.